He has participated in few forums and taken few hard stands this election season, but now mayoral candidate Kevin Wolff is taking aim at the homeless and a new shelter set to be built in northern Chapel Hill.
Wolff, an attorney running against incumbent Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and fellow challenger Tim Sookram, passed out fliers last week criticizing the shelter site, arguing that when it is built, children will be “assaulted, molested, kidnapped, or killed.”
“It’s not a matter of if this will happen ... it is a matter of when,” the flier says. “Search your heart and your feelings parents; you know this is true!”
The Town Council approved a new men’s homeless shelter at 1315 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., to be operated by the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service, earlier this year.
The flier continues a pattern of controversial campaign behavior by Wolff, who also ran for mayor in 2009. Two years ago he distributed fliers describing then Town Council member Kleinschmidt as a gay rights activist who has no children and doesn’t own a home in Chapel Hill. He later withdrew from the 2009 race in an effort to swing votes to current council member Matt Czajkowski, who was also running for mayor at the time.
Efforts to reach Wolff for comment this election season have been unsuccessful.
Read the flier below:
Katelyn Ferral covers Orange County for The News & Observer and The Chapel Hill News.
Comments
Wrong. Shelters do NOT help
Sat, 10/22/2011 - 15:39 — streetsweeperWrong. Shelters do NOT get the homeless of the streets. In fact they enable the homeless to stay on the streets. What? You think they stay in the shelters 24/7? Anyone who has lived in &/or worked the shelters knows that shelters do NOT relieve desperation. They are depressing dirty un-safe often violent places which is sometimes precisely why some homeless people CHOOSE to live under bridges, storm drains, abandon Ice cream trucks ( which by the way just because a sheffield dairy truck box is insultated...doesn't mean you wont freeze your feet so bad they have to be amputated. He was formely called No-name. Now we call him -No Foot.) get real. that warm-fuzzy you get just saying the word "Homeless" & oooozing compassion might make you feel good, but it has nothing to do with reality. Stop watching tv and come on out here where life really happens. I promise, no commercial breaks. Heres a fact for you sister. Most of these people 85% or better, do not WANT homes. Too much responsibility
Gets them off the streets
Fri, 10/21/2011 - 00:08 — FlowerpowerA shelter gets the homeless, some of whom are crime-prone, off the streets which really is a benefit, not only to children but to homeowners. A shelter provides structure, food, services, and housing and removes some of the desperation they must feel. . .
when you say "the fringe",
Thu, 10/20/2011 - 22:38 — carbonLibwhen you say "the fringe", do you mean the family that just lost their home? people like wolff always get their comeuppance...........always...
Mayoral Candidate Wollf
Thu, 10/20/2011 - 21:20 — henryeThe facts of life are the more you do for the Homeless the more you are going to have..While we all realize with high unemployment that those on the fringe will become homeless. I live in an upper income area. and we have a Library there. I occasionly see a homless person there.using the Bath Rooms. where they sleep I do not know unless its on the Golf Course.But somwhere a line has to be drawn or you will be completely overrun with them
hey everybody! this guy
Thu, 10/20/2011 - 23:24 — danimal6000hey everybody! this guy lives in an upper income area!